Monday, June 25, 2012

CUDA Emulator

The CUDA emulator is a software that duplicates (or emulates) the functions of a computer system with a CUDA-enabled card in a computer system with no such hardware, so that the emulated behavior closely resembles the behavior of the real system. This software package is mainly aimed to empower developers and students who do not have access to Nvidia GPU's.


Initially, the CUDA Toolkit came with an emulator "built into" the CUDA compilor; "nvcc". Later, from versions after 3.0, the emulator was dropped. The last version that supports the emulator is v2.3, and can be downloaded from the CUDA Toolkit archives here.


But thankfully, several third parties have contributed to produce several emulation options that will be listed in this space shortly.

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